This course meets three (3) hours per week in the classroom and requires at least one (1) additional hour per week of online and/or language laboratory instruction. Continued listening, speaking, ...

Please contact [[akitamura, Professor Aiko Kitamura]] for more information, or see the Modern Languages and Literatures Department's Placement Policy. This course is an introduction to the basic ...

Are you interested in Japan? A major or minor in Japanese studies gives you the chance to explore that interest. You will gain linguistic and cultural fluency to provide expertise on Japanese culture ...

Students of Japanese not only gain knowledge of the modern Japanese language, but also develop awareness of Japanese literary history and the cultural contexts in which works were written. Our ...

His studies were focused primarily on modern Japanese language and translation. As an undergraduate, his personal essay A Cicada Shell/It Sang Itself/Utterly Away was selected for multiple awards, ...

This immersion introduces students to the language, customs, and cultural aspects (history, art, literature, politics, anthropology, and music) of Japan. The immersion consists of three language ...

Welcome to the Japanese Section of UW's Department of Modern & Classical Languages. As a department of foreign languages, literatures, and cultural studies, we prepare our students for life and ...

The Department of Modern Languages currently offers programs in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish and Portuguese. Language is how we communicate. It is how ...

Kimberly Kono teaches courses on modern Japanese language, literature and culture. Her book Romance, Family and Nation in Japanese Colonial Literature (Palgrave, 2010) examines the tropes of romance, ...